Fostering social entrepreneurship through public administration support

Fostering public health leadership.

The crescendo of seemingly intractable threats to our global well-being has prompted a call for more leaders in public health. Indeed, many highly motivated and well-intentioned individuals seem poised to respond. But as aspiring public health leaders prepare for action, there is a marked dearth of proven and tested teachings, models and frameworks to guide them. With relatively little public h...

Defining the ‘Social’ in ‘Social Entrepreneurship’: Altruism and Entrepreneurship

What is social entrepreneurship? In, particular, what’s so social about it? Understanding what social entrepreneurship is enables researchers to study the phenomenon and policy-makers to design measures to encourage it. However, such an understanding is lacking partly because there is no universally accepted definition of entrepreneurship as yet. In this paper, we suggest a definition of social...

Addressing social dilemmas and fostering cooperation through computer games

The concept of social dilemmas can be used to understand social situations all around us. I am looking at identity formation to help understand why people make the decisions they do in a social dilemma and whether the explicit knowledge of being in these situations help steer them to cooperate within their social groups. First I describe a previous study which clearly demonstrates the need to t...

Social Networks and Entrepreneurship

Various Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education: Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurship Support

The importance of entrepreneurship has boomed in several last decades. Currently, the new age ofentrepreneurship is discussed a lot. The new age is primarily connected to innovation and technologicaltrends. There are no doubts that entrepreneurship and its support has got into the focus of publicpolicies. One of the very efficient ways of supporting spreading of entrepreneurship is ...